Mission drift in microfinance: An exploratory empirical approach based on ideal types

Research Methodology in Strategy and Management

Volumn 9, Issue , 2014, Pages 77-109

  Zhao, Eric Yanfei ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Institutional logics; Microfinance; Mission drift; Organizational forms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906258711     PISSN: 14798387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S1479-838720140000009012     Document Type: Article

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